<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail-moat-trackable gmail-pb-f-theme-normal gmail-pb-f-dehydrate-false gmail-pb-f-async-false gmail-full gmail-pb-feature gmail-pb-layout-item gmail-pb-f-article-article-topper" id="gmail-f4GUYI1EdE92pr" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;float:left;width:804.391px"><div class="gmail-border-bottom-off gmail-border-bottom-100-pct" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent"><div id="gmail-article-topper" class="gmail-article-topper" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent"><div id="gmail-topper-headline-wrapper" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;display:flex"><div class="gmail-topper-headline" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent"><h1 style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 8px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;font-family:PostoniWide,"Bodoni 72","Bodoni MT",Didot,"Didot LT STD","Hoefler Text",Garamond,Georgia,serif;word-spacing:-0.02em;line-height:1.1em;color:rgb(42,42,42);display:inline-block">Joe Biden’s campaign acknowledges lifting language from other groups for its policy plans</h1></div></div><div class="gmail-clear" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;clear:both"></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail-pb-container" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;width:804.391px;margin:0px auto;max-width:1440px;clear:both"></div><div class="gmail-moat-trackable gmail-pb-f-theme-normal gmail-pb-f-dehydrate-false gmail-pb-f-async-false gmail-full gmail-pb-feature gmail-pb-layout-item gmail-pb-f-article-article-deck" id="gmail-f0iPJfGEdE92pr" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;float:left;width:475.063px;padding:0px"><div id="gmail-article-deck" class="gmail-article-deck" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent"><div class="gmail-clear" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;clear:both"></div></div></div><div class="gmail-moat-trackable gmail-pb-f-theme-normal gmail-pb-f-dehydrate-false gmail-pb-f-async-false gmail-full gmail-pb-feature gmail-pb-layout-item gmail-pb-f-article-article-body" id="gmail-fwE0vq1EdE92pr" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;float:left;width:475.063px"><div id="gmail-article-body" class="gmail-article-body gmail-content-format-ans" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent"><div class="gmail-inline-content gmail-inline-photo gmail-inline-photo-normal" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;padding:0px 0px 12px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent"><a name="IRMN6YUHDUI6TJEREXPWDR4NYQ" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;color:rgb(25,85,165)"></a><img class="gmail-" src="https://www.washingtonpost.com/resizer/PbuMdMs-2OPYWoRqWdw34IMrd7k=/1484x0/arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/IRMN6YUHDUI6TJEREXPWDR4NYQ.jpg" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; width: 475.063px; cursor: zoom-in;"><br style="box-sizing:border-box"><span class="gmail-pb-caption" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:4px 0px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;line-height:1.25em;color:rgb(110,110,110);display:block">Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden tours the Plymouth Area Renewable Energy Initiative in Plymouth, New Hampshire on Tuesday. (Brian Snyder/Reuters)</span></div><div class="gmail-author-sig-line-wrapper" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 18px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:16px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;line-height:22px;color:rgb(102,102,102);display:inline-block;max-width:inherit"><div class="gmail-author-sig-line" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent"><div class="gmail-author-byline gmail-multiple" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;display:f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r making carbon capture, use and storage a “widely available, cost-effective, and rapidly scalable solution to reduce carbon emissions to meet mid-century climate goals.”</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:4px 0px 16px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;font-family:Georgia,Times,"Times New Roman",serif">On its website, the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions’s Carbon Capture Coalition says “its goal is to make carbon capture, use and storage (CCUS) a widely available, cost-effective, and rapidly scalable solution to reduce carbon emissions to meet mid-century climate goals.”</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:4px 0px 16px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;font-family:Georgia,Times,"Times New Roman",serif">“It is certainly not a good sign for a Democratic presidential candidate to be copying things verbatim from a group associated with the coal industry,” Nelson said.</p><span id="gmail-slug_inline_bb_4" class="gmail-wp-inline-bb gmail-pb-centered-bb" style="box-sizing:border-box;display:block;margin:auto;width:300px"><div id="gmail-google_ads_iframe_/701/wpni.politics_9__container__" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0pt none;outline:0px;font-size:18.2113px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;display:inline-block;width:300px;height:250px"></div></span><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:4px 0px 16px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;font-family:Georgia,Times,"Times New Roman",serif">Alec Gerlach, communications director for the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions, said it does not coordinate with campaigns. But he added “carbon capture should be an essential element in any comprehensive strategy to eliminate carbon emissions.”</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:4px 0px 16px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;font-family:Georgia,Times,"Times New Roman",serif">At least one environmental group didn’t mind seeing its ideas influence White House hopefuls.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:4px 0px 16px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;font-family:Georgia,Times,"Times New Roman",serif">In its climate plan, for example, the Biden camp copied a factoid — the “average American sewage pipe is 33 years old, with many pipes dating back 50 or even 100 years” — verbatim from the website for American Rivers in a section about water infrastructure.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:4px 0px 16px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;font-family:Georgia,Times,"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:18.2113px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">But </span>Amy Kober, a spokeswoman for the American Rivers clean-water advocacy group, said her organization was “absolutely happy to see anybody come to our website.”</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:4px 0px 16px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;font-family:Georgia,Times,"Times New Roman",serif">“Our information is available to all campaigns,” she added.</p></div></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+<br><br> Harold F. Schiffman<br><br>Professor Emeritus of <br> Dravidian Linguistics and Culture <br>Dept. of South Asia Studies                     <br>University of Pennsylvania<br>Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305<br><br>Phone:  (215) 898-7475<br>Fax:  (215) 573-2138                                      <br><br>Email:  <a href="mailto:haroldfs@gmail.com" target="_blank">haroldfs@gmail.com</a><br><a href="http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/" target="_blank">http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/</a>    <br><br>-------------------------------------------------</div></div>